Undated
Like Other Girls by Britta Lundin (Disney Hyperion) - date and synopsis provided by author on twitter.
Medusa by Jessie Burton (Bloomsbury)
Jessie Burton will
retell the Medusa myth in an "empowering" YA title for Bloomsbury
exploring themes of "toxic masculinity and the meaning of consent".
The Miniaturist author's second children’s novel, Medusa, will be published as a hardback gift edition by Bloomsbury Children’s Books.
Burton, whose debut The Miniaturist
(Pan Macmillan) was published in 2014, said that she "wanted to reclaim
Medusa's story and invite the reader into her mind” to explore gender
politics following the sexual harassment claims faced by US film
director Harvey Weinstein and many other powerful men.
Burton
said: "So often [Medusa’s] robbed of agency, turned into a monster, and
used as a stepping stone for heroes. The myth of Medusa is a tale of
objectification and toxic masculinity, and the meaning of consent. Given
the continuing revelations about men like Weinstein and (US president
Donald) Trump, and others we have each encountered on our way through
life, Medusa's myth is ripe for the retelling."
"Jessie’s Medusa is gripping, lyrical and empowering," Holgate said. "With this story, and The Restless Girls,
she has created much-needed role models from maligned and overlooked
female fictional characters. I envy the readers who grow up with these
fabulous retellings where women and girls finally get to give us their
perspective.
The Witch Haven by Sasha Peyton Smith (Simon and Schuster)
Nicole Ellul at S&S has bought, at auction, Sasha Peyton Smith's debut The Witch Haven,
first in a YA historical fantasy duology set in 1911 New York.
Seventeen-year-old seamstress Frances Hallowell is whisked off to
Haxahaven, a school for witches disguised as a tuberculosis sanitarium.
But the more she learns about the magical underworld of the city, the
more she begins to fear that it may be related to the mysterious death
of her brother six months prior. Publication is planned for fall 2021;
Hillary Jacobson at ICM Partners negotiated the two-book deal for North
American rights.
Untitled by Margot Woods (Abrams) - release month announced by author on twitter.
"One of my life goals was to one day update my Twitter bio to say that I'm an author.
Today is that day.
I'm very casually stoked to announce that I sold my very first novel at auction!!!!!!!
It'll go on sale in 2021....so until then, join me for this wild ride."
August 3rd
A Dragonbird in the Fern by Laura Reuckert (Flux Books) - delayed due to COVID-19.
When
an assassin kills Princess Jiara's older sister Scilla, her vengeful
ghost is doomed to walk their city of glittering canals, tormenting
loved ones until the killer is brought to justice. The mourning period
hasn't even reached its end when Scilla's betrothed, the king of a
country far away, requests that seventeen-year-old Jiara take her
sister's place as his bride.
Marrying the man meant for her
sister would make her feel bad enough, but with a learning disability
and years of scholarly struggles, Jiara believes her chances of learning
a new language are slim. She's terrified of life in a foreign land,
where she'd be unable to communicate. Then Jiara discovers evidence that
her sister's assassin came from the king's country. Marrying the king
would allow Jiara to hunt the murderer and release her family from
Scilla's spirit, whose thirst for blood mounts every day.
With
magical bracelets on her forearms and a dagger strapped to her calf
(neither of which she knows how to use), she makes her way to the lush,
fern-covered country of her sister's assassin. But Jiara hasn't even
reached her new home when the first attempt is made on her life. To save
her family, Jiara must find Scilla's killer...before he murders her
too.
Sugar Town Queens by Malla Nunn (Putnam)
When Amandla wakes up on her fifteenth birthday she knows it's going to be one of her mother's difficult days. Her mother has had another vision. If Amandla wears a blue sheet her mother has loosely stitched as a dress and styles her normally braided hair in a halo around her head, Amandla's father will come home. Amandla's mother, Annalisa, always speaks of her father as if he was the prince of a fairytale, but in truth he's been gone since before Amandla was born and even Annalisa's memory of him is hazy. In fact many of Annalisa's memories from before Amandla was born are hazy. It's just one of the many reasons people in Sugar Town give Annalisa and Amandla strange looks--that and the fact her mother is white and Amandla is brown.
But when Amandla finds a mysterious address in the bottom of her mother's handbag along with a large amount of cash, she decides it's finally time to get answers about her mother's life. But what she discovers will change the shape and size of her family forever.
How We Fall Apart by Katie Zhao (Bloomsbury)
In a YA thriler that is Crazy Rich Asians meets One of Us is Lying,
students at an elite prep school are forced to confront their secrets
when their ex-best friend turms up deadand they're the prime suspects in
her murder.
When Nancy Luo's former best friend Jamie Ruan, the
top ranked junior at Sinclair Prep, goes missing. Nancy is shocked.
She's even more shocked when Jamie is found dead.
The police
suspect murder, and Nancy and her three friends become the prime
suspects-fhanks to The Proctor, someone set on publicdy incriminating
them via the school's social media app. The quartet used to be Jamie's
dosest friends - and she knew dangerous secrets about each of them that
could ruin their reputations as the other top- ranking students. For
Nancy, the stakes are even higher, because unlike her wealthy friends,
she could lose her full ride scholarship, too.
As the group
struggles to dear their names while maintaining their perfect GPAS, they
race to uncover Jamie's true killer-before the Proctor exposes al of
their darkest secrets. But Nancy can't help but suspect that one of her
friends is lying. Or is there a missing piece in her own memory that
could expose the truth-not justabout Jamie's fate, but also about
herself?
The Perfect Place to Die by Bryce Moore (Sourcebooks Fire) - previously titled Murder Castle.
When Zuretta's sister, Ruby, travels to Chicago, and disappears, Zuretta leaves home to find her. She has a little bit of money from her Utah church, an abiding fandom of the legendary Pinkertons, and a deep hope and faith of finding Ruby soon.
After a series of mishaps, she claws her way forward, taking a job in the very place her sister Ruby last worked—a hotel owned by notorious serial killer Dr. H. H. Holmes.
But Zuretta's efforts to find out what happened to her sister don't go unnoticed, and before long, she finds herself up against one of the most infamous mass murderers in American history—and his custom-built death trap.
The Great Destroyers by Caroline Tung Richmond (Scholastic)
The Hunger Games meets Pacific Rim, set in the 1960s Cold War.
Jo
Linden grew up in a world where wars are won with the use of giant
mechanical soldiers and the nuclear bomb was never invented. Yet the
Cold War still rages. Only now international rivalries between democracy
and communism play out at the Pax Games, an Olympic-style competition
that pits young pilots of mecha soldiers against each other. The USSR's
beaten the US in every game since its inception, and in the 1963 games,
the US is desperate for a win. Because it's more than just the Games at
stake here. Premier Khrushchev will be attending, and after he and
President Kennedy are slated to sign a peace accord stabilizing the war
in Vietnam-and their relationship.
Raised in her father's mecha
repair shop, Jo knows more than anyone about the awesome machines and
piloting. She's also the most unlikely pick for Team USA since she's a
virtually unknown fighter. So when Jo is invited at the last minute to
compete, she jumps at it. This could be the last chance to save her
family's home from debt collectors. When Jo arrives in DC for the Games,
all eyes on her. But she's got secrets of her own. Secrets that could
get her kicked out the Games-and cost her family everything-if anyone
found out. As competitors start dying in the arena, it's suddenly clear
that it's more than the usual Pax Games, and Jo finds herself drawn into
a deadly political plot with the very stake of freedom at its center.
In
a global chess match between superpowers, playing out in violent games
that only humanity could create, comes a terrifying story of clashing
titans, deadly competition, patriotism, and the girl caught in the
middle of it all.
A Beautiful Doom by Laura Pohl (Sourcebooks Fire)
Four troubled friends, One murdered girl... and a dark fate that may leave them all doomed.
After the mysterious death of their best friend, Ella, Yuki, and Rory are the talk of their elite school, Grimrose Academy. The police ruled it a suicide, but the trio are determined to find out what really happened.
When Nani Esvez arrives as their newest roommate, it sets into motion a series of events they couldn't have imagined. As the girls retrace their friend's last steps, they uncover dark secrets about themselves and their destinies, discovering they're all cursed to repeat the brutal and gruesome endings to their stories until they can break the cycle.
This contemporary take on classic fairytales reimagines heroines as friends attending the same school. While investigating the murder of their best friend, they uncover connections to their ancient fairytale curses and attempt to forge their own fate before it's too late.
The Woods Are Always Watching by Stephanie Perkins (Dutton) - moved from September 2020 due to COVID-19.
Stephanie Perkins
returns with another blood-chilling contemporary horror novel, the
perfect companion to her New York Times bestseller There’s Someone
Inside Your House, soon to be a Netflix feature.
A traditional
backwoods horror story set–first page to last–in the woods of the Pisgah
National Forest in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Two girls go backpacking in the woods. Things go very wrong.
And, then, their paths collide with a serial killer.
The Dead and the Dark by Courtney Gold (Wednesday Books)
The Dark has been waiting for far too long, and it won't stay hidden any longer.
Something
is wrong in Snakebite, Oregon. Teenagers are disappearing, some turning
up dead, the weather isn’t normal, and all fingers seem to point to
TV’s most popular ghost hunters who have just returned to town. Logan
Ortiz-Woodley, daughter of TV's ParaSpectors, has never been to
Snakebite before, but the moment she and her dads arrive, she starts to
get the feeling that there's more secrets buried here than they
originally let on.
Ashley Barton’s boyfriend was the first teen
to go missing, and she’s felt his presence ever since. But now that the
Ortiz-Woodleys are in town, his ghost is following her and the only
person Ashley can trust is the mysterious Logan. When Ashley and Logan
team up to figure out who—or what—is haunting Snakebite, their
investigation reveals truths about the town, their families, and
themselves that neither of them are ready for. As the danger
intensifies, they realize that their growing feelings for each other
could be a light in the darkness.
Courtney Gould’s thrilling debut The Dead and the Dark
is about the things that lurk in dark corners, the parts of you that
can’t remain hidden, and about finding home in places—and people—you
didn’t expect.
Piper Sullivan never should have been at Suicide Point the day she fell. Her older sister, Savannah, knows this with all her heart—just as she knows that Piper’s “accident” was entirely her fault. Savannah did something awful, something she can barely stand to think about, and now Piper is in a coma.
But just as Savannah’s guilt threatens to swallow her whole, she finds something strange in Piper’s locker: a note inviting Piper to a meeting of their school’s wilderness club…at the very place and on the very day she fell. Which means that there’s a chance Piper wasn’t alone.
Maybe it isn’t Savannah’s fault, after all. Someone in the club might know what really happened. Someone might have done something. But why? If Savannah wants to find out the truth about that tragic day, she’ll have to join the club on their weekend long camping trip…on the very same mountain where her sister fell. And with everyone in the club a suspect, she’ll need to be careful or she might follow her sister into the dark.
Dangerous Play by Emma Kress (Roaring Brook Press)
Propulsive, electrifying, and high-stakes...
Zoe
Alamandar has one goal: win the State Field Hockey Championships and
earn a scholarship that will get her the hell out of Central New York.
She and her co-captain Ava Cervantes have assembled a fierce team of
dedicated girls who will work hard and play by the rules.
But
after Zoe is sexually assaulted at a party, she finds a new goal: make
sure no girl feels unsafe again. Zoe and her teammates decide to stop
playing by the rules and take justice into their own hands. Soon, their
suburban town has a team of superheroes meting out punishments, but one
night of vigilantism may cost Zoe her team, the championship, her
scholarship, and her future.
Perfect for fans who loved the female friendships of Jennifer Mathieu’s Moxie and the bite of Courtney Summer’s Sadie.
Sabriel: 25th Anniversary Classic Edition by Garth Nix (Katherine Tegan Books)
Since childhood, Sabriel has lived outside the walls of the Old Kingdom, away from the random power of Free Magic, and away from the Dead who refuse to stay dead. But now her father, the Charter-Mage Abhorsen, is missing, and to find him Sabriel must cross back into that world. With Mogget, whose feline form hides a powerful, perhaps malevolent spirit, and Touchstone, a young Charter Mage, Sabriel travels deep into the Old Kingdom. There she confronts an evil that threatens much more than her life--and comes face-to-face with her own hidden destiny.
Suns Will Rise by Jessica Brody and Joanne Rendell (Simon Pulse)
A CONVICT. A CYBORG
A DÉFECTEUR
FIVE REBELS. ONE REVOLUTION.
It’s been three months since the Patriarche was beheaded, leaving behind no heir. From the outside, Laterre seems to be flourishing. General Bonnefaçon has cleaned up the streets, fed the hungry, and restored peace while the next leader is decided upon. But dangerous rifts threaten to shatter the planet from within.
The Red Scar is killing anyone with a legitimate claim to the Regime, while the Vangarde and their freed leader are preparing to overthrow it.
Then, it’s revealed that the Patriarche had a child in secret. A missing heir…
Alouette is the general’s prisoner, interrogated on the whereabouts of his renegade grandson. Marcellus is desperately searching for her, knowing she’s the key to the Vangarde’s plan, but unaware that he’s being hunted by a determined new cyborg. Meanwhile Chatine grows restless, living with a rebel group she doesn’t fit into. Until an old friend solicits her help to save his Défecteur community from a mysterious, new threat. A threat that will tie them all together.
When the general makes an explosive play for power, allegiances will shift, rebels will become leaders, barricades will rise, and the tinderbox of Laterre will finally ignite, launching a revolution five hundred years in the making.
A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee (Delacorte)
Perched in the Catskill mountains, the centuries-old, ivy-covered campus was home until the tragic death of her girlfriend. Now, after a year away, she’s returned to graduate. She even has her old room in Godwin House, the exclusive dormitory rumored to be haunted by the spirits of five Dalloway students—girls some say were witches. The Dalloway Five all died mysteriously, one after another, right on Godwin grounds.
Witchcraft
is woven into Dalloway’s history. The school doesn’t talk about it, but
the students do. In secret rooms and shadowy corners, girls convene.
And before her girlfriend died, Felicity was drawn to the dark. She’s
determined to leave that behind her now; all Felicity wants is to focus
on her senior thesis and graduate. But it’s hard when Dalloway’s occult
history is everywhere. And when the new girl won’t let
her forget.
It’s
Ellis Haley’s first year at Dalloway, and she’s already amassed a loyal
following. A prodigy novelist at seventeen, Ellis is a so-called
“method writer.” She’s eccentric and brilliant, and Felicity can’t shake
the pull she feels to her. So when Ellis asks Felicity for help
researching the Dalloway Five for her second book, Felicity can’t say
no. Given her history with the arcane, Felicity is the perfect resource.
And when history begins to repeat itself, Felicity will have to face the darkness in Dalloway–and in herself.
Evil always seeks a foothold. We must not give it one.
After a heartbreaking loss, Lou, Reid, Beau, and Coco are bent on vengeance more than ever before—and none more so than Lou.
But this is no longer the Lou they thought they knew. No longer the Lou that captured a chasseur’s heart. A darkness has settled over her, and this time it will take more than love to drive it out.
Meet the Wild Ones: girls who have been hurt, abandoned, and betrayed all their lives. It all began with Paheli, who was once betrayed by her mother and sold to a man in exchange for a favor. When Paheli escapes, she runs headlong into a boy with stars in his eyes. This boy, as battered as she is, tosses Paheli a box of stars before disappearing.
With the stars, Paheli gains access to the Between, a place of pure magic and mystery. Now, Paheli collects girls like herself and these Wild Ones use their magic to travel the world, helping the hopeless and saving others from the fates they suffered.
Then Paheli and the Wild Ones learn that the boy who gave them the stars, Taraana, is in danger. He’s on the run from powerful forces within the world of magic. But if Taraana is no longer safe and free, neither are the Wild Ones. And that…is a fate the Wild Ones refuse to accept. Ever again.
Like a Love Song by Gabriela Martins (Underlined)
This debut paperback original romance follows a Latina teen pop star whose image takes a dive after a messy public breakup, until she’s set up with a swoon-worthy fake boyfriend.
Fake boyfriend. Real heartbreak?
Natalie is living her dream: topping the charts and setting records as a Brazilian pop star…until she’s dumped spectacularly on live television. Not only is it humiliating—it could end her career.
Her PR team’s desperate plan? A gorgeous yet oh-so-fake boyfriend. Nati reluctantly agrees, but William is not what she expected. She was hoping for a fierce bad boy—not a soft-hearted British indie film star. While she fights her way back to the top with a sweet and surprisingly swoon-worthy boy on her arm, she starts to fall for William—and realizes that maybe she’s the biggest fake of them all. Can she reclaim her voice and her heart?
Rise Up From the Embers by Sara Raasch and Kristen Simmons (Balzer + Bray)
Two gods are dead. The Mother Goddess has returned. War is rising.
Fleeing war-ravaged Deimos, Ash and Madoc sail across the ocean to their only possible allies: the water and plant gods. But when Anathrasa attacks on the way, Ash leaps to the defense—by using a power she didn’t know she had.
When Madoc made the fire and earth gods mortal, he inadvertently transferred their magic to Ash. Now, if Ash can get energeias from the other four gods, she would be powerful enough to end Anathrasa once and for all.
But not all the gods want the Mother Goddess defeated. To stop her, Madoc will have to become the obedient son his mother always wanted, and Ash will have to take a merciless place among the gods.
To defeat an immortal, Ash and Madoc must fight like gods—even if it means sacrificing their humanity.
Carmen Johnson at Amazon/Skyscape acquired world rights to Brown Boy Nowhere by Sheeryl Lim. The #OwnVoices novel follows a 16-year-old Filipino American student who is uprooted from his diverse San Diego community to an all-white Midwest high school, where he is determined to find a way back west until he meets an ex-cheerleader outcast who captures his heart and forever changes the way he views small-town America. Publication is slated for summer 2021; Sharon Belcastro at Belcastro Agency handled the deal.
August 10th
The Devil Makes Three by Tori Bovalina (Page Street Kids) - previously titled Ink.
Tess Matheson only wants
three things: time to practice her cello, for her sister to be happy,
and for everyone else to leave her alone.Instead, Tess finds herself working all summer at her boarding school library, shelving books and dealing with the intolerable patrons. The worst of them is Eliot Birch: snide, privileged, and constantly requesting forbidden grimoires. After a bargain with Eliot leads to the discovery of an ancient book in the library's grimoire collection, the pair accidentally unleash a book-bound demon.
The demon will stop at nothing to stay free, manipulating ink to threaten those Tess loves and dismantling Eliot’s strange magic. Tess is plagued by terrible dreams of the devil and haunting memories of a boy who wears Eliot's face. All she knows is to stay free, the demon needs her... and he'll have her, dead or alive.
The Good Luck Girls are free. Aster's sister and friends have new lives across the border in Ferron, while Aster remains in Arketta, helping more girls escape. But news of a new welcome house opening fills Aster with a need to do more than just help individual girls. And an unexpected reunion gives her an idea of how to do it. From there, grows a wildly ambitious plan to free all dustbloods, who live as prisoners to Arketta's landmasters and debt slavery.
When Clementine and the others return from Ferron, they become the heart of a vibrant group of fearless fighters, working to unite the various underclasses and convince them to join in the fight. Along the way, friendships will be forged, lives will be lost, and love will take root even in the harshest of circumstances, between the most unexpected of lovers.
But will Arketta's dustbloods finally come into power and freedom, or will the resistance just open them up to a new sort of danger?
Now without a home and on the run, Aissa has never felt so trapped and alone even with her sister and friend by her side. Zandria—once her other half—has become cold and inflexible after her time in the Technocrat’s dungeon and is bent on revenge Aissa no longer feels. Their friend Remy may still side with his father, a Magi leader who refuses to believe his spy, Darian Azul, has turned traitor. And Aissa herself is now an enemy of her Magi people after falling in love with—and binding her heart to—Aro, a Techno prince who puts all their lives at stake.
Using clues her parents and others left behind, Aissa is determined to uncover the secrets of the Alchemist Alliance that helped create her and Zandria’s unique magical powers … as well as learn whether the Alliance’s research holds the key to healing the rift between the Magi and Technocrats after centuries of war. But with her people preparing for battle, and Darian poised to use the Technocrats’ might for his own ends, it will take more than lost spells and hidden secrets to accomplish her goal. Especially as the dangerous bond between her Aro grows deeper and threatens everything Aissa has ever believed.
When her twin sister reaches social media stardom, Moon Fuentez accepts her fate as the ugly, unwanted sister hidden in the background, destined to be nothing more than her sister’s camerawoman. But this summer, Moon also takes a job as the “merch girl” on a tour bus full of beautiful influencers and her fate begins to shift in the best way possible.
Most notable is her bunkmate and new nemesis, Santiago Phillips, who is grumpy, combative, and also the hottest guy Moon has ever seen.
Moon is certain she hates Santiago and that he hates her back. But as chance and destiny (and maybe, probably, close proximity) bring the two of them in each other’s perpetual paths, Moon starts to wonder if that’s really true. She even starts to question her destiny as the unnoticed, unloved wallflower she always thought she was.
Could this summer change Moon’s life as she knows it?
August 17th
Ebonwilde by Crystal Smith (HMH)
Get ready to be swept away, seduced, and swindled in the wickedly vicious third and final installment in the Bloodleaf series that Laura Sebastian called “enchanting, visceral, and twisty.”
Welcome to Ebonwilde. Come and find me.
Aurelia’s
last words haunted Zan. Left with the task of finding and reviving
Princess Aurelia, Zan sets off on his own adventure to find her and
return the gift she sacrificed for him—her life. But not all is what it
seems, and Ebonwilde is more dangerous than anyone can predict.
Dagger Hill by Devon Taylor (Swoon Reads)
Stranger Things meets One of Us Is Lying
in this creepy paranormal mystery about four friends who find
themselves hunted by a malevolent presence in their sleepy hometown.
It knows your fear...
Summer, 1989. Four
best friends—Gabe, Kimberly, Charlie, and Sonya—are preparing for their
last summer together before senior year, after which they’ll all be
splitting up to start college in different parts of the country. They
make a promise to always find their way back to each other, no matter
how far away from their sleepy Pennsylvania hometown they get.
But their plans are destroyed when a plane crashes right on top of their favorite hangout outside of town—and right on top of them.
In
the catastrophic aftermath of the incident, Gabe, Sonya and Charlie are
plagued by eerie visions and messages from an unknown watcher. They
soon realize that the plane crash was no accident, and now they are
being hunted by a sinister presence. And everyone is still searching for
Kimberly, who has been missing ever since Gabe saw somebody wearing a
gas mask carry her out of the woods the day the sky fell down on them...
Living Beyond Borders: Stories About Growing Up Mexican in America by Various Authors (Philmonel)
In this mixed-media collection of short stories, personal essays, poetry, and comics, this celebrated group of authors share the borders they have crossed, the struggles they have pushed through, and the two cultures they continue to navigate as Mexican American. Living Beyond Borders is at once an eye-opening, heart-wrenching, and hopeful love letter from the Mexican American community to today’s young readers.
Ashfall Legacy by Pittacus Lore (HarperCollins)
Pittacus Lore finished
telling the story of the Lorien Nine. Now, he’s back to recount an
all-new adventure rooted in the real mysteries surrounding Roswell, New
Mexico, that will enthrall fans of Jay Kristoff, Amie Kaufman, and
Brandon Sanderson.
We have waited generations for you…
Syd
Chambers knows that there’s life on other planets because he’s
descended from it. His father was from a distant world called Denza, and
has been missing—presumed dead—for years.
When Syd discovers a
device his father left behind that shows not only that he’s alive, but
where he is, Syd must set out on a mission of his own. But along the
way, he discovers a deadly, unbearable secret that could destroy Denza,
Earth, and the universe.
Me (Moth) by Amber McBride (Fiewel and Friends)
Moth has lost her family in an accident. Though she lives with her aunt, she feels alone and uprooted.
Until she meets Sani, a boy who is also searching for his roots. If he knows more about where he comes from, maybe he’ll be able to understand his ongoing depression. And if Moth can help him feel grounded, then perhaps she too will discover the history she carries in her bones.
Moth and Sani take a road trip that has them chasing ghosts and searching for ancestors. The way each moves forward is surprising, powerful, and unforgettable.
Here is an exquisite and uplifting novel about identity, first love, and the ways that our memories and our roots steer us through the universe.
The Endless Skies by Shannon Price (Tor Teen)
Shannon Price's The Endless Skies is a breakout standalone epic fantasy about shapeshifting warriors perfect for fans of Adrienne Young and Wonder Woman. Sixteen-year-old Rowan is about to become one of the famed Leonodai Warriors—the elite magical fighters who protect the floating city Heliana from the world of Men. Until disaster strikes the city’s children.
Against orders from the king, Rowan sets out on her own and tracks down one of the Warrior teams—only to find herself face to face with both the man she loves and the one who holds the dark secrets of their past. With time running out and Men on their tail, Rowan must risk everything to save her beloved city.
In the Wild Light by Jeff Zentner (Crown)
Life in a small Appalachian town is not easy. Cash lost his mother to an opioid addiction and his Papaw is dying slowly from emphysema. Dodging drug dealers and watching out for his best friend, Delaney, is second nature. He’s been spending his summer mowing lawns while she works at Dairy Queen.
But when Delaney manages to secure both of them full rides to an elite prep school in Connecticut, Cash will have to grapple with his need to protect and love Delaney, and his love for the grandparents who saved him and the town he would have to leave behind.
Cazadora by Romina Russell and Romina Garber (Wednesday Books)
In Cazadora, the follow-up to Lobizona,
Romina Garber continues to weave Argentine folklore and real-world
issues into a haunting, fantastical, and romantic story that will
reunite readers with Manu and her friends as they continue to fight for a
better future.
August 24th
Vampires, Hearts and Other Dead Things by Margie Fuston (Simon Pulse)
Victoria and her dad have shared a love of the undead since the first vampire revealed his existence on live TV. Public fear soon drove the vampires back into hiding, yet Victoria and her father still dream about finding a vampire together. But when her dad is diagnosed with terminal cancer, it’s clear that’s not going to happen. Instead, Victoria vows to find a vampire herself—so that she can become one and then save her father.
Armed with research, speculations, and desperation—and helped by her estranged best friend, Henry—Victoria travels to New Orleans in search of a miracle. There she meets Nicholas, a mysterious young man who might give her what she desires. But first, he needs Victoria to prove she loves life enough to live forever.
She agrees to complete a series of challenges, from scarfing sugar-drenched beignets to singing with a jazz band, all to show she has what it takes to be immortal. But truly living while her father is dying feels like a betrayal. Victoria must figure out how to experience joy and grief at once, trusting all the while that Nicholas will hold up his end of the bargain…because the alternative is too impossible to imagine.
The Eyes of the Forest by April Henry (Macmillan/Ottaviano)
Bridget is RM Haldon's biggest fan. His epic fantasy series, Swords and Shadows, created a lifeline between Bridget and her mom as she lost her battle with cancer. When Bridget met Haldon at his only book signing, she impressed the author with her encyclopedic knowledge of the fantasy world he'd created. Bridget has been working for him ever since as he attempts to write his final book. Now, Haldon is missing, and Bridget is the only person who seems concerned. Can Bridget piece together Haldon’s clues and save him before it’s too late?
Master mystery-writer April Henry weaves another heart-stopping young adult thriller in this story that seamlessly blends suspense with fan culture. For readers of Courtney Summers and Karen McManus.
Game Changers by Abbi Glines (Simon Pulse) - Goodreads still lists a November 2020 release date, but the publisher confirms this release date.
Welcome to the Field Party. Where you bring the party to the field, where you dance all night, where anything goes. From #1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Abbi Glines comes the next book in this series about a small Southern town filled with cute boys in pickup trucks, Friday night football games, and wild parties that stir up some major drama.
Bad Witch Burning by Jessica Lewis (Delacorte)
For fans of Us and The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
comes a witchy story full of black girl magic as one girl’s dark
ability to summon the dead offers her a chance at a new life, while
revealing to her an even darker future.
Katrell doesn’t mind
talking to the dead; she just wishes it made more money. Clients pay her
to talk to their deceased loved ones, but it isn’t enough to support
her unemployed mother and Mom’s deadbeat boyfriend-of-the-week. Things
get worse, when a ghost warns her to stop the summonings or she’ll “burn
everything down.” Katrell is willing to call them on their bluff,
though. She has no choice. What do ghosts know about eating peanut
butter for dinner?
However, when her next summoning accidentally
raises someone from the dead, Katrell realizes that a live body is worth
a lot more than a dead apparition. And, warning or not, she has no
intention of letting this lucrative new business go.
But magic
doesn’t come for free, and soon dark forces are closing in on Katrell.
The further she goes, the more she risks the lives of not only herself,
but those she loves. Katrell faces a choice: resign herself to poverty,
or confront the darkness before it’s too late.
Your Life Has Been Delayed by Michelle Mason (Bloomsbury)
Past and present, friends and crushes collide in a YA debut about a girl who takes off on a flight and lands 25 years later.
Jenny
Waters boards her flight in 1995, but when she lands, she and the other
passengers are told they disappeared . . . 25 years ago. Everyone
thought they were dead.
Now contending with her family and
friends fast-forwarding decades, Jenny must quickly adjust to
smartphones and social media while being the biggest story to hit the
internet. She feels betrayed by her once-best friend and fights her
attraction to a cute boy with an uncomfortable connection to her past.
Meanwhile, there’s a growing group of conspiracy theorists determined to
prove the whole situation is a hoax. Will Jenny figure out how to move
forward, or will she
always be stuck in the past?
For fans of
Julie Buxbaum, Michelle Mason offers a smart and funny debut about big
life changes...and the parts that, surprisingly, always stay...
How Maya Got Fierce by Sona Charaiporta (Imprint)
The Bold Type meets Younger in How Maya Got Fierce by Sona Charaipotra, a YA fish-out-of-water contemporary novel!
Maya
dreams of working in magazines. But as the daughter of garlic farmers,
her path is set: It’s off to Cow Camp instead. And when she accidentally
destroys valuable property and gets kicked out of the program, she
can’t tell her parents—or ask for the thousands of dollars she owes.
Desperate to earn enough to pay for her mistake, Maya interviews for an internship at Fierce fashion magazine—and ends up getting a full-time job offer! The only problem? They think she’s 26.
Maya is so close to making her dreams come true, even if the glam life at Fierce
isn’t quite as shiny and fun as she hoped. But when she suggests the
perfect candidate for a big story—and manages to get the scoop—all eyes
are on her. How long can she keep her real age from her boss—and her
real life from her parents?
Beyond the Mapped Stars by Rosalyn Eves (Knopf)
A sweeping
adventure, set in the late 19th century, about science, love, and
finding your place in the world, perfect for fans of Ruta Sepetys and
Julie Berry.
Seventeen-year-old Elizabeth Bertelsen dreams of
becoming an astronomer, but she knows such dreams are as unreachable as
the stars she so deeply adores. As a Mormon girl, her duty is to her
family and, in a not too far away future, to the man who’ll choose to
marry her.
When she unexpectedly finds herself in Colorado, she’s
tempted by the total eclipse of the sun that’s about to happen—and
maybe even meeting up with the female scientists she’s long admired.
Elizabeth must learn to navigate this new world of possibility: with her
familial duties and faith tugging at her heartstrings, a new romance on
the horizon, and the study of the night sky calling to her, she can’t
possibly have it all…can she?
August 31st
Forestborn by Elayne Audrey Becker (Tor Teen)
TO BE BORN OF THE FOREST IS A GIFT AND A CURSE.
Rora
is a shifter, as magical as all those born in the wilderness--and as
feared. She uses her abilities to spy for the king, traveling under
different guises and listening for signs of trouble.
When a
magical illness surfaces across the kingdom, Rora uncovers a devastating
truth: Finley, the young prince and her best friend, has caught it,
too. His only hope is stardust, the rarest of magical elements, found
deep in the wilderness where Rora grew up--and to which she swore never
to return.
But for her only friend, Rora will face her past and
brave the dark, magical wood, journeying with her brother and the
obstinate, older prince who insists on coming. Together, they must
survive sentient forests and creatures unknown, battling an
ever-changing landscape while escaping human pursuers who want them
dead. With illness gripping the kingdom and war on the horizon, Finley's
is not the only life that hangs in the balance.
Wish of the Wicked by Danielle Paige (Bloomsbury)
Cindy
Loh at Bloomsbury has acquired two novels in a new series by Danielle
Paige, author of Stealing Snow and the Dorothy Must Die series; Vicky
Leech at Bloomsbury U.K. will edit. This YA fantasy series will weave a
unique spin on the “"airy godmother" character and explores this
infamous heroine's origin story from charmed teen to wish-wielding
enchantress.
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